Kamo Genteru has been engaged in botany and horticulture throughout his life. He has cultivated many flowers and developed new varieties of flowers. He is one of the famous world authorities not only in Japan but also in the world. His lifelong wish was to cultivate the most beautiful and precious new varieties, and to bear the name of a great man to be passed down to future generations forever.
He worked hard to realize this wish, but it was not easy. In order to obtain the flowers needed to cultivate new varieties, we had to fly to European countries and many other countries, and we also had to adapt them to the climate and soil of Japan. These tasks were not easy. In order to express the friendship between Japan and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the owner of the flower, Mototeru Kamo, named the flower the "Kim Jong Il Flower" for the leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and placed the flower in 1988. It was sent to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea as Kim Jong Il's 46th birthday gift on February 16, 2016.
Indonesia, the United States, Japan and many other countries have built Kimjong Il flower greenhouses, and have successively established Kim Jong Il flower associations, hobby clubs, and popular support clubs.
"Report" by the Korean Central News Agency In February 1999, a unique and bright red flower set off by large green leaves appeared in the world.
The Korean Central News Agency reported the news, and propaganda media such as Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, and Norway also reported the news one after another. According to reports, the new flower cultivated by Genteru Kamo of Japan after a long period of hard research is a flower that embodies beautiful human emotions and wisdom such as love for the future, justice, and peace, and is full of the style of a great man. Kamo Genteru read many biographies of great people in order to name the new flower. In the process, he got to know Comrade Kim Jong Il, the great leader of North Korea who is widely praised for his extraordinary talents, noble appearance, and outstanding achievements. He named the flower after Comrade Kim Jong Il, the hero of the Korean people.
In August 1997, it won the Grand Prize at the China Flower Show. At the 99th Kunming World Horticultural Exposition in China, it once again won the highest award - the Grand Prize and the Certificate of Merit.
The President of the International Association of Horticultural Producers and the Chairman of the International Jury Committee of the World Horticultural Exposition said that the Netherlands, which considers itself the world’s “Kingdom of Flowers”, does not have flowers as charming as the Kim Il Sung flower or as charming as the Kim Jong Il flower. Flowers bursting with enthusiasm. ... This expo, in which North Korea is the best, shows that North Korea, which supports leader Kim Jong Il, has a bright future. Through this expo, the international community clearly understands the national spirit and pride of the North Korean people. The International Horticultural Society officially registered Kim Jong Il flower as a new species of Begoniaceae.
The Kim Jong Il flower has given off a more brilliant brilliance in the world of flowers, and will be passed down to future generations forever as a human treasure that is academically recognized around the world.
The above statement is often raised by the North Korean government for political purposes. In an interview with Kamo Mototeru on the Japanese TBS TV station "ひるおび!" program broadcast on December 29, 2011, Kamo said that he was invited by the North Koreans several times and finally lost his patience. After he named When the power was transferred to North Korea and was named "Kim Il Sung Flower" by the North Koreans, he did not know who Kim Il Sung was at the time. “I’m still very confused (Now I’m confused),” he said.